= Metadata =

The "DFG Practical Guidelines on Digitisation" 
([http://www.dfg.de/forschungsfoerderung/wissenschaftliche_infrastruktur/lis/download/praxisregeln_digitalisierung.pdf German], [http://www.dfg.de/forschungsfoerderung/wissenschaftliche_infrastruktur/lis/download/praxisregeln_digitalisierung_en.pdf English]) discuss some metadata issues.

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: 
  * [http://dublincore.org/ homepage], [http://dublincore.org/documents/ overview], [http://dublincore.org/resources/faq/ FAQ]
  * DCMI Metadata Terms: [http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ DCTERMS] (main document), [http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/2008/dcterms-changes/ REVISIONS], [http://dublincore.org/documents/2008/01/14/domain-range/ DOMAINS]
  * DCMI Namespace Policy: [http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-namespace/ NAMESPACE]
  * DCMI Abstract Model: [http://dublincore.org/documents/2007/06/04/abstract-model/ DCAM]
  * DC and RDF: [http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-rdf/ DC-RDF], [http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-rdf-notes/ DC-RDF-NOTES]
  * Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML: [http://dublincore.org/documents/2003/04/02/dc-xml-guidelines/ 2003 version], may soon be superseded by the [http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-xml/ 2006 working draft]

The [https://itgroup.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de:8080/tracs/mpdl-project-content/browser/trunk/schema/echo/echo-metadata.rnc metadata module] in our Relax NG compact schema.